Daily Yellowstone journal. [volume] (Miles City, Mont.) 1882-1893, 1887-05-26
PUBLIC INTEREST
Centres in the Topic which is
now Entered upon and
Elaborately Discussed.
Reasons for the Producers TAX
ing Better Care of Them
selves and Business.
HOME ENTERPRISES

And the Returns for Local Patronage.
James Coleman has returned from q
prospecting visit to the new town on
the Manitoba road called Muddy.
Jimmy has good deal Of the com.
modify roughly termed In this coun-
try horse sense and will think several
onces before pulling up stakes here
and taking his chances with the pop"
town Of the Dakota prairies. The
town Is said TO be overdone already,
the consumers are largely in super.
abundance and the producers are nil.
Right here is good opportunity to
say word concerning these towns of
mushroom growth with which Mon.
tana will be plentifully blessed (?) this
year according to all reports. "A
rolling stone gathers no moss" is a
homely and significant expression and
a business man-if he be worthy the
name-who is continually on the
move following the boom of this town
and that will come out in the end like
a Mexican dog. you have anything
to lcse you must of necessity have
something to hold and the town where
you make your start Is the town tn
stay by and In the end 1t will be dol.
lars in your pocket. Point out II you
can one example where man contin.
ually on the 20 and everlastiDgly fol-
lowing up shadow has reaped lasting
benefit. Toall those of the producers,
who are laboring under desire to cast
their fortunes and experience with a
town-mostly on paper-we say think
twice before you act. In our limited
experience we could cite an hundred
cases where at the end Of five, six or
seven years, the ardent seeker after
fortune, whose breast was filled with u
restless longing, has found himself at
the end of q certain time not pro-
ducer but consumer and hungry
and ragged one at that. "Where the
treasure is there is the heart, ALSO"
and where the stake Is made there
should IL be blown in. But these folks
who are everlastingly kicking about
the hard times. are they doing any.
thing to lessen the stringency of the
money market? Not much! They
hold their little money purse tightly
clasped and tho homeless wanderers
before Miles City claimed their atteu-
tion, would now like to discourage the
outside world from investing their
money In long securities.
And while we are in this strain IL
would not be amiss to administer to
the business public word concerning
a home institution which Is the great
est credit to the town-always bar
ring present company-and that Is the
best equipped aud appointed hotel
between St. Paul and Portland. This
Is no idle boast. aud travelling men,
stock men and In fact everyone used
to the comforts and luxuries that
money affords, unite In the declarat tion
thst the Macqueei house is all that
we claim for it. A city Of Miles
standing should take pride and pleas.
ure In supporting an elegant hotel,
but does 1t? Ask of the dozens OF
merchants in this city who farm their
clerks out at private boarding houses,
and why? Well. 1t comes cheaper q
dollar or two per week. Not that we
condemn the private boarding houses,
they are as good in their way as any
hotel board, perhaps, and 1t Is an in.
herent right of the American citizen
to make money in any legitimate en-.
terprise that turns ny. But the pat
ronage and support Of these people,
who In turn derive their patronage
and support from the moneyed inter-
ests of the country should be more
literally extended 10 an institution
which like the Mscqueen-dravs trade
and capital to the country. And the
Macqueen house represents an expen'
dlture Of over $50, 900 and has been q
m. nina, In veatmant N all oonoarn cd